RESEARCH
With 78 full-time researchers among a total of 241 affiliated members. CRIA is currently the main research institution in Portugal dedicated to Anthropology.
Research is carried out within CRIA's main research groups, headed by senior scholars responsible for coordination and scientific supervision, for the development of activities related to the groups' specific research fields and for promoting academic dialogue and debate in the public sphere. The four research groups, listed below, cover issues such as the production of identity and social differentiation, policies and practices of culture, migration and citizenship, power and knowledge:
i) Circulation and Place-Making;
ii) Practices and Politics of Culture;
iii) Governance, Policies and Livelihoods;
iv) Environment, Sustainability and Ethnography.
By facilitating relations among members of the Universities to which CRIA belongs and by promoting international cooperation with similar institutions and non-governmental organizations, CRIA has enhanced its national and transnational research networks in Anthropology. This has enabled CRIA to maximize resources and capacities that were originally dispersed, resulting in more in-depth scientific work in terms of theory, methodology and how themes are addressed.
CRIA is involved, both as a host institution and as a partner, with other national and international entities in several internationally funded projects, research programmes and scientific networks. Consequently, CRIA has extensive experience in the coordination and management of national and international R&D projects, including those from the FCT, QREN, 7th Framework Programmes (HERA, Gruntvig, ERC, ESF, COST Actions), and private funding.
CRIA is an active participant in international anthropological forums, working in close cooperation with institutions from all over the world, specifically through collaboration with academic and scientific organizations from Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, France, Germany, India, Italy, Malaysia, , Mozambique, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, the United States of America, and the United Kingdom, among others.